Displaced Peoples 2, Chris Pappan

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Chris Pappan, Displaced Peoples 2
Chris Pappan, Displaced Peoples 2
Chris Pappan
Displaced Peoples 2
2011
Chris Pappan, artist
Cultural affiliations: Osage, Kaw, Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux
born 1971
Displaced Peoples 2, 2011
Where object was made: New Mexico, United States
Material/technique: wood panel; acrylic
Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 110 x 82 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 43 5/16 x 32 5/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 46 1/4 x 35 1/4 x 1 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2012.0010
On display: Loo Gallery
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Exhibition Label: "Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place," Sep-2011, Nancy Mahaney This piece is the first in a series of paintings that reproduces historical antique maps of Indian territories focusing on removal and relocation events to the Central Plains in what became Indian Territory in present-day Kansas and Oklahoma. Distorted figures of people endemic to those areas are juxtaposed on the map to show the impact of how a simple little line on a map can devastate an entire populace. The figures are distorted because people have a distorted view of American Indians in their minds and we are also guilty of distorting that image as well.